A Docile Rooster

Hello BYC, I have an ameraucana, rhode islamd red rooster that's way too docile. He's in a different pen because our hens beat him until he bleeds. When he's in the pen, the hens lunge at him but he just stands there and watches them hit the wall. He's super flighty as well. Any advice for me to help him with the hens??? Thank you all!

He's still a baby! He may look like a grown roo, but he still thinks he's a chick! It's normal for a young cockerel to defer to all of the older chickens in the flock. He's both in awe of them and afraid of them.

He won't get his flood of hormones until this coming spring, early February at the earliest. Then he'll be driven to try to dominate the hens. He'll be rejected by most of them until he reaches full maturity. After that, they'll begin to accept his dominance.